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Who Judges the Judge?

LAP’s Aliza Shatzman joined Moshe Kurtz on As I Walk Through the Valley for a wide-ranging conversation about LAP’s work and the circumstances that inspired her to launch a first-in-the-nation judicial reform nonprofit to correct injustices she personally experienced as a law student and law clerk.

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Harassed by the Judge She Clerked For: Aliza Shatzman on Fighting Back

Law clerk harassment is one of the legal profession's best-kept secrets, and Aliza Shatzman lived it. A judge harassed her, fired her, and then torpedoed her dream job as a homicide prosecutor with a single negative reference she was never allowed to see. Then she found out she couldn't sue him, because 30,000 people who work for the federal courts have no protection under Title VII.

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Aliza Shatzman - Episode 96

Aliza Shatzman joins Jewish Perspectives on the News and Politics to discuss the importance of judicial reform.

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New COMPLAINT Exposes the EXISTENTIAL CRISIS in the Judiciary

Aliza Shatzman of the Legal Accountability Project joins Court Accountability Action’s Mike Sacks to talk about LAP’s first judicial misconduct complaint against Second Circuit Court Judge Sarah Merriam. Aliza and Mike talk about Judge Merriam’s mistreatment of her law clerks (including mistreatment that violated the federal judiciary’s workplace policies), how judges have been able to get away with bullying and abuse for so long, and what can be done to protect clerks.

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The Legal Accountability Project: Protecting Against Judicial Misconduct

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman sat down with former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner to discuss her experiences as a judicial law clerk which led her to launch The Legal Accountability Project, and the disruptive work LAP is doing to ensure judges who abuse their power by mistreating clerks are held accountable.

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Judges As Employers

LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman returns to Short Circuit podcast to discuss former federal public defender Caryn Strickland’s lawsuit against the federal judiciary.

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The Kindred Episode

Aliza Shatzman joins Lawyers Behaving Badly to discuss former judge Joshua Kindred and harassment in the federal judiciary.

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What to Do When a Bad Judge Is Your Bad Boss

Judicial misconduct “spans the ideological spectrum; the racial and gender spectrum. No one is exempt from these problematic behaviors. Both Democratic and Republican appointees mistreat their clerks,” Aliza Shatzman told Bloomberg Law's On The Merits podcast.

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